Eng Kuta is targeting 80,000 kilograms of kasse in 2024/2025 About nine kilometers along Kikyusa road off Kampala-Gulu Highway is Kikerege Trading Centre and a few meters behind it is JBK Farm. The 30-acre farm belongs to Jossy Balissa Kuta, a Biomedical Engineer, who is so knowledgeable and passionate about coffee
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Residents and leaders staying around River Nyamwamba in Kasese district need to be involved in developing and implementing solutions for the flooding of the river, according to Alex Binego Kwatampora ,the President of Geologist Society of Uganda. Kwatampora argues that government has consistently made abortive interventions without involving the indigenous
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The joint security team in the Karamoja sub region has recovered 503 live rounds of ammunition at Kokochaya check point, off Karita-Lokales road along Uganda-Kenya borderline. It is alleged that since yesterday the suspects, one identified as Kevo and another yet to be identified both residents of Kachaliba in West
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Rwanda contributed the highest volume of profit earnings for Kenyan bank subsidiaries in East Africa and beyond last year, a new report by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) said. The CBK said the regional subsidiaries of Kenyan banks posted a combined pre-tax profit of Sh32.51 billion as of December
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A section of lawmakers have protested the failure by the Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development to provide for Shs42bn for the payment of coffee nursery operators who supplied seedlings to Government, saying the move is going to sink these farmers into economic ruin because many borrowed money to boost their
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Book: Making Public Enterprises Work Author: Dr. William Muhairwe Reviewed by: Peter Nyanzi Available at: Leading book stores in Kampala Armed with an MBA and a PhD in Business Management from Germany, he was chosen by the Government of Uganda to prepare a loss-making public corporation for sale to a
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Participants at the forum On Thursday May 18, 2023, I&M Bank, in collaboration with ACI- Financial Markets Association of Uganda, hosted a successful Treasurers’ Forum at the I&M Bank Head Office, at Kingdom Kampala. The Treasurers’ forum, which serves as the constituent technical arm of the Uganda Bankers’ Association on Financial Markets-related matters,
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Odrek Rwabwogo is the head of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development A section of Opposition MPs were left furious after their efforts to stop the allocation of Shs37bn to President Museveni's son in law, Odrek Rwabwogo for a project aimed at promoting coffee were thwarted by their
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Small Scale farmers from the seven member states of the East African Community (EAC) want governments in the region to invest the largest portion of their Agriculture budget to fund Agroecological farming system. The farmers argue that although most African Countries signed the Malabo Declaration which calls for African states
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Commercial banks increased the prime borrowing rate to an average of 20.39 percent in the three months to January from 19.86 percent in the three months to September 2022, the Bank of Uganda (BoU) has revealed in its recently published Monetary Policy Report for February 2023. This was in response
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